Hell by Montgomery Quinn

Author:Montgomery Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montgomery Quinn

NINE

By my estimation, it had been about four hours. I was just a few minutes from the warehouse and looking behind me, the others would arrive within the next half hour at most. After the hiccup with Brian, there had been little going on. I had spotted a shrieker or two in the distance, but they’d been too far off to do anything about it. Sneaky had found a snack, after… Well… Sneaking up on a flock of buzzards. She’d been quick to share with Sarge and I wondered if that was normal behaviour for them. Either way, that did little to distract me from the now.

Originally, I’d planned on rushing to the warehouse, yelling through the door and sending Sarge and Sneaky in to flush out the rats. But now I was a little concerned. There was a corpse on the ground by the entrance. I couldn’t be sure from this distance, but it looked kind of like Matt… well… It looked kind of like Matt, if he had been torn to pieces by a pack of wolves and partially eaten in the night. I’d seen the remains from shrieker attacks. The shriekers were messy eaters, but they took large chunks. This looked literally like a pack of wolves had shredded him. His torso, eaten from the inside, lay in one area, heavily stained with blood. I could also see an arm and what was left of a leg to one side. But I couldn’t see the rest of him. The only reason I thought it was Matt was his face was mostly left clear. Whatever ate him wanted the larger cuts and rushed off before daybreak, most likely. All that was left was being picked at by a small flock of buzzards.

“Sneaky. Run over there and back.”

Sneaky didn’t make a sound before running off. She raced across the ground in a rolling sprint, straight past the body, sending the small reptiles into the air. After sliding to a stop, she turned and sprinted back, showing there wasn’t anything hiding over near the body. At least, nothing that wanted to mess with a shrieker.

Leaning into movement, I brought Sarge closer. The whole time I gripped my glaive, ready to take action the moment I needed to. Sneaky was a testament to my ability to predict a lunging animal. Probably had something to do with my class if I thought about it. That woman, on the first day, snatched beside me. Was it luck? Or something more? Shaking my head, I put the thought aside. If ever I saw her again, I’d apologise. Right now, though, I needed to be on my game. As I pulled up beside the corpse, I could see it was definitely Matt. The look etched into his features told me he felt everything that happened to him… At least for a while… One arm was still attached and other than the large muscle being gone, I could see from his hands there were defensive wounds.

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